The Up to Us Competition judges include Chelsea Clinton; former White House Chief of Staff and former Co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform Erskine Bowles; former U.S. Senator and former Co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform Alan Simpson; and anchor of ABC’s “This Week” and “Good Morning America” George Stephanopoulos.

Stephenopolous was kind of whitewashing this attempt to build influence, and probably takening some instructions as to who to vote to give money to and for what purposes.

Some of the money for the award was underwritten Laureate International Universities, a private university that also put Bill Clinton on its payroll, as well as having some kind of an affiliate that got some money directly from the State Department.

All this, is at a minimum, logrolling.

When you have logrolling, there’s no simple quid pro quo, since it is a lot of people helping a lot of other people, and there’s probably more to that anyway.

It can be said the Clintons were raising Stephanopolous’s profile, which might be worth tangible money to him. And he was helping them gain credibility for their “awards” And those awards were made for whatever reason.